Does he really not see the overreach That he seems to be here to teach As he tries to control And make me fall into a role He never listens And the teardrops glisten From more eyes than mine Just because the Light Sublime Won’t bend to his will And he may have some skill In moulding metal into a shape But I will make my escape Out the back door You can’t call me yours anymore Or ever again in the future And the suture Never healed the wound And sometimes I wonder if we’re all doomed To die a death on the sand Just because no one can understand Do I set a boundary line And create a place you can’t design Into your map of what’s known I was once but now I’m grown
Looking at him And I cannot win Coz he commands the deck And is a head wreck As I try to emerge from my cocoon But the flavour of him is in the room And I try to run but I cannot escape Do you remember when Superman had a red cape And couldn’t see through lead Kryptonite and you’d leave him for dead For all his muscle memory He hasn’t got the best of me Coz I’m no Lana Lang One of the girls who also ran I’ve got my own flair and kick Do you know what you’re dealing with As they try to tear me to shreds For what the people do in beds And I fight my way out with storm and grit Go ahead and call me a bitch For failing to reply to your text But do you know what scene is next In the brimming full of Diagonal Alley I’m on the land overlooking the valley And I can’t stand the facetiousness Of the person they think they address When they hurl their words at me Who do you think you free When you’re all about captivity And holding me back Then the weather attack The spacious air I should know coz I was there When it all went down Now it’s just the past and the sound Of tomorrow’s bells won’t ring in this city And you could say it’s a pity But it wasn’t so sad when you were staring down The woman you love in a white gown Like it was something you could fake I hear it in the sharp intake Of breath that you breathe That’s life, they say, but it’s the life I need